An ambush is a good idea, but due to the terrain, the Qing army will follow up in a long line, at least three or four miles, so should it be bowed to its head or waist, or to its tail?

The head was eliminated by Wang Wu, because it was the remnants of Ma Tengyun's army who had just escaped (released) back.

Ambushing these remnants of the army did not play any role in attacking the green battalion soldiers behind them, except for startling the grass and snakes and exposing the Ming army's intention to set up an ambush.

It will even make the Ming army fall into a bitter battle with the Green Battalion, turning an ambush war into a war of attrition.

That would definitely be more than worth the cost.

After all, the Ming army was so numerous, and the entire Western Front had actually collapsed.

Once the Ming army without foreign aid was entangled and bitten by the Qing army, it had no chance to stand out at all.

If you are at the end of the war, the Qing army brigade that has passed the ambush circle will not be eaten by the Ming army in one bite, and it will also fall into a bitter battle.

In line with the principle of reducing his own casualties as much as possible and killing and wounding the enemy's vital forces to the greatest extent, Wang Wu decided to bow down.

The problem is that it is of course the best choice to bow down, but the gap between the strength of the enemy and us is too great, and although the Ming army, which lacks firearms, has the advantage of surprise, it is afraid that it is impossible to completely disrupt the Qing army in the first place, causing them to lose their command system and collapse.

How to quickly "paralyze" the command system of the Qing army after the ambush broke out became a problem that Wang Wu had to think about and solve.

When he learned that there were hundreds of catties of medicine seized from Mabe, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of "mine warfare".

Of course, it wasn't really to engage in any mines, or stone mines, or heavenly maidens scattering flowers, but to let people concentrate all the gunpowder and detonate it.

Through the power and momentum brought by the explosion, the Qing army was in chaos, so that the Ming army could not form an effective resistance to the panicked Qing army by charging and killing again.

When everyone heard this idea, they all said that it was very good, and the five brothers of Wang were not only able to fight, but also had good brains.

The blasting task was handed over to Xu Deyi, who was born in the old Shun army.

They are very good at blasting, and they can even be said to be experts.

Because Liu Tichun's troops have a distinctive feature in Kui Dongming's army.

That's how they dig tunnels and blast!

Liu Tichun himself is a master here, and it is no better to use "blasting expert" to describe this anti-Qing general.

The year before last, when the Ming army under the command of Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng stormed Wushan City, which was garrisoned by the Qing army on the Western Front, Liu Tichun had dug tunnels with the intention of taking the city by blasting.

Unfortunately, because Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, discovered the way for the Ming army to transport grain to the besieging troops, he sent hundreds of Qing troops to disguise themselves as Ming troops and lurk on the grain road to constantly attack the grain transportation team of the Ming army.

As a result, the Ming army besieging the city had no strength to dig tunnels due to lack of food, and finally had to be forced to withdraw.

As a result, the strategic initiative is completely lost.

In fact, the siege method of blasting is not only used by the Lao Shun army, but also by the Great Western Army, but after the Qing court was completely based in China, the effective siege method of blasting was lost in the Qing army.

It was not until the birth of the old watch in Guangxi that this kind of blasting method used by the peasant army appeared again in the history of warfare.

The city of Nanjing was blown down by gunpowder by the Taiping army.

Wang Wu's idea was to dig the road to bury the gunpowder in the place where the Qing army must pass, and then use the fire rope to detonate it from a distance.

He didn't know how powerful the explosion would be when gunpowder was used intensively, but he was sure that the explosion would produce a lot of smoke, and this smoke was also a good helper for the Ming army's attack, which would not only limit the vision of the Qing army in the chaos, but also make them more panicked because they couldn't see the battlefield clearly.

If a large amount of lead and gravel are arranged in the place where the gunpowder is buried, the lethality will be greater after the explosion.

At close range, the armor will be pierced.

Just do it!

Who knew that Xu Deyi told Wang Wu that they had no way to dig a pit on the road and bury medicine, because the road was too frozen, and they did not have the tools to dig the road.

And even if you can bury gunpowder, you can't use a fire rope to ignite it from a distance.

The reason is that the arquebus must be buried in the snow so that it will not be detected by the Qing army, but then the arquebus will definitely not be lit at all due to moisture.

After hearing this, Wang Wu was about to give up this method, but Ma Sizhong put forward an idea.

It was to concentrate the gunpowder on the carriage and then pretend to discard it, and then ignite the gunpowder when the Qing army approached, so that the explosion was more powerful than burying it on the road.

This idea is feasible.

But who's going to do it?

Everyone knows that the person who ignites the fire in the car will be 100% killed!

After the silence, Xu Deyi proposed that he should light the fire.

Of course Wang Wu disagreed, he couldn't designate who would be the ignition man, he didn't have the right to force others to die!

Ma Sizhong proposed to choose the dead soldiers, but Zhang Tianwang said that he had chosen them, and he would organize his subordinates to draw life and death lots.

Let God decide whether to live or die.

When everyone was arguing, a faint voice came from a seriously wounded man named Zhang Shuncheng, who was placed on a clean stone by his companions not far away: "Leave this matter to us who are dying." ”

The voice was faint, but unwavering.

"Anyway, we can't live, if we can pull some more clear dog pads before we die, we will be very happy down there."

Another wounded, pale from blood loss, struggled to get up.

"Count me in, don't leave me."

"It's better to die a happy death than to die."

“......”

The seriously wounded struggled to get up, or struggled to support themselves, or looked at Wang Wu and them with pleading faces.

"Pillar, leave the medicine to the brother who needs it, don't waste it on me."

After the seriously wounded man named Zhou Abao stood up and leaned against the tree, his weak right hand was held on his nephew who was about to pour gold medicine on his wound, no matter how much the nephew cried and begged, he didn't want the precious gold medicine in the bottle to fall down a little.

"Originally, I wanted you to wait for your uncle to die and burn him, and the ashes would be buried somewhere at random, but now it seems that there is no need for that."

Looking at the last single seedling of the Zhou family, Zhou Abao, who was foaming blood from time to time at the corner of his mouth, raised his right hand tremblingly and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of his nephew's eyes.

He said softly: "After Uncle leaves, you follow General Wang, even if you die, you can't lower the Tartars, if... If the sky is endless, our gang will be in the future... In the future, you must fight back to your hometown in Yulin, where .... There are our roots. ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at the officers leading the team: "It's so decided, don't let us old brothers die blindly!" ”

Wang Wu twisted his face to the side.

The man has tears and does not flick, but at this moment, his eyes are full of tears.

Ma Sizhong sniffled, his fists clenched and trembling slightly.

Xu Deyi lowered his head, his heart was as uncomfortable as a boulder.

Brother Zhang Tianwang remained motionless and choked up as they looked at the seriously injured who wanted to make their deaths more meaningful.

Dumb, blind, Cao Diwei, Zhao Jinzhong, Tian Wen...

Everyone was sobbing.

In the sound of the explosion, the seriously wounded of the Ming army completed the last task of their lives.

The aftermath echoed through the valley, like the heroic spirits of the heroes who were reluctant to disperse.

The explosion of thunder on the flat ground can't hide the last swan song of these Han family children!